Property Book Shop - How to Rent Vacation Properties by Owner Second Edition

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Manufacturer: Kinney Pollack Press

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 643.25
EAN: 9780974824994
ISBN: 0974824992
Label: Kinney Pollack Press
Manufacturer: Kinney Pollack Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 350
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Publisher: Kinney Pollack Press
Studio: Kinney Pollack Press

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Summary: Finally Someone Talks About Insurance
Comment: I was impressed with this book because most rental managers don't even discuss insurance or know anything about it. Yet, this book devotes several pages on this topic. So, If you got a vacation rental, or thinking about it like me, your common garden variety homeowners policy won't do. You got to pay twice or more on the premium for a vacation home.

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Summary: Extremely helpful book
Comment: We have just started to rent our vacation property by owner after having it done by a management company. This book has been extremely helpful in making the transition.

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Summary: Very informative and easy to read
Comment: For a person like me who is going to start in the Vacation Rental Business, this book was very helpful and informative. For someone who has experience in the business maybe will find it too elementary or too basic. For me it was a good start.

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Summary: A great starting point.....
Comment: I own 5 rental properties, 2 are vacation rentals. I bought this book with pretty high expectations. Well, even though I've been doing this for 15 years, Christine still had some new advice to share. I thought her formula was great for some areas, but in Colorado Ski country it just doesn't work.

I love how she does give a couple different points of view pertaining to financing your vacation home.

I would also preferred more depth, that a chapter on properties outside the US, and buy multiple properties. But as some reviewers have stated, it is an excellent primer.

I do think that her book on booking rentals, The Vacation Rental Organizer is a very useful organizer for the money. I intend to purchase one each year.

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Summary: Nice title, but way too basic info, too wordy (filler)
Comment: I thought the title of the book was exactly what I was looking for. I had a property to rent and thought about making it a vacation rental. So, I bought the book thinking it would help point out some not-so-obvious issues about renting a vacation property. But after reading it, I was disappointed with the lack of any real advice or tips. There are a A LOT of words, but they seem to be mostly filler with only very limited and basic useful information. I would not recommend this book to anyone interested in running a real business.

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In this all-new, updated edition, author and speaker Christine Hrib-Karpinski takes readers through all the steps necessary to purchase and rent out a vacation home. This book contains practical, hands-on advice that shows the reader how to do it without property management companies, and keep 100 percent of the profits. It offers realistic strategies to create a situation in which renters pay the mortgage, while still allowing the owner several weeks a year in that little slice of paradise.